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Supererogation, moral effort, and the limits of obligation
Mellema, Gregory
2017
Abstract
When a moral agent performs an act of supererogation, the agent is doing something praiseworthy that is not morally required. Doing this requires effort and in particular more effort than merely satisfying the requirements of duty. I refer to this type of effort as moral effort. In the first half of this essay, I explore the role of moral effort in achieving the status of the supererogatory. In the second half of the essay, I defend a view concerning the limits of moral obligation that I call duty minimalism, and I explain how the two parts of this essay relate to one another.
Series
Etica & Politica / Ethics and Politics
(2017) XIX/1
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Gregory Mellema “Supererogation, moral effort, and the limits of obligation” in "Etica & Politica / Ethics and Politics, (2017) XIX/1", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017, pp. 309-317
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